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PATENT OFFICE.

' JOSEPH A. MACLENNAN, OE -AMBLEE` PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOE TOTHE DODGE COAL STORAGECOMPANY. OE NAUGATUCK, CONNECTICUT, A

CORPORATION OECONNECTTCUT.

STORAGE APPARATUS FOP! COALlNG-STATIONS.

SPECIFICATION lforming**part vof Letters lPatent No. 761,594, dated May 31, 1904.

Application filed February 17, 1904. Serial No. 193,979. y (No model.)

To olv/'ZZ whom` may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH A. MACLENNAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in Ambler', Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Storage Apparatus for (dealing-Stations, of which the foli -lowing'is a speciiication.

I0 Steamboat coaling-station in a comparativelyf Vinexpensive manner and to provide means for' filling a bin from the pile and for removingA ashes fromthe'pit adjacent to the pile. This object I attain in the following-manner, ref-` erencebeing had to the accompanying draw-E ings, in whichY i' Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved'y coal-storage apparatus for railway coaling-,

l stations. Fig. 2 is a face view. Fig, Sis ani 2O end View.v Fig. dis a View illustrating a modi- -iication of the bin construction and the means for charging the locomotive-tenders with coal? from the bin, and Fig. 5 is a View showing. my invention applied to a steamboat maling-.

station. f f Referring in the iirst instance to Figs. 1,f 2, and 3, A is the iioor upon which the coali istobe piled.` At one side of ,this floor are two tracks B B. B isthe coaling-track, and? iB is the siding between the coaling-track and the Hoor and upon which thecoal-cars are run, E from whichr the supply for the coal-pile is, drawn. Directly above the siding-track B" is an elevated, coal-pocket D, supported on- `vertical standards D", suitably braced and.v

-mounted sufficiently above the track to allow clearance for a locomotive. vThe bottom of the coal-pocket is preferably inclined towardv th'ecoaling-track B, uponV which the locomo- 40 tive is run when its tender is to besupplied with coal. In the present yinstance, I have shown `an adjustable chute .Whichcan be raised clear of the locomotive or cars on the track, and whenv it is .desired to charge the tender with coal it can be lowered, so as to direct the coal into'the tender, as indicated in Fig.

3. Between the siding-track B and the piling-iioor is a pit A. This pit extends, preferi ably, under the track B', so that when the coalcars on 'the track B are discharged the coal `will flow into the pit. tween the piling-floor and the standards of the bin to allow for the passage of a bucket into the pit, the pit being the center around 4'which the semicircular pile is formed, as illus- The object of my invention is to provide means for storing coal iii-bulk at a railway ori trated in Fig. l. floor is a segmental trestle C, upon which is a track c, and on the track isa truck E, carrying a pivoted crane E. The base E2 of the crane is mounted so as to swing in a complete circle on the truck E. Projecting from' Vthe Vbase E2 is aboom F, from which extends suitable ropes for raisingH and lowering the boom, and suspended from the end of the fbo'oml is a bucket I. This bucket in the present instance is of the clam-shell type, and ropes extend from the lloucketto the operatingmechanism on the baseF.2 for raisingy and lowering and opening and closing the bucket. The segmental track is built around the pitas a cenof the pit the' boom can be so adjusted that the bucket can-be lowered into the pit or may Vbe Ymoved over the bin to discharge material into the bin or pile coal on the floor within a certain radius. Between vthe rails of I), which are preferably in sucha position with respect to the bin that when the-tender is being charged with coal from the bin ashes rectly into apit. The boom of the crane is of such a length that when thel crane is moved, for instance to the position w, Fig. 1, the boom can be adjusted so that the bucket can be lowered directly into the ash-pit b at one side of the coal-pocket and remove ashes therefrom and transfer the ashes into `a car M (shown in Fig. 1 )on the siding-track B' or intoa pit, if desired, at the-Side ofthe track. Thus my improved apparatus canbe used not only for handling coal, but also for handling ashes. It will be understood that in plants of any sizethe truck of the crane is driven by power, so that it can be shifted to any point along the segmental track. I pref- The pit is openbe- Mounted upon the pilingter, and as the bin D is directly in front thecoaling-track B are one or more ash-pits 8o can be discharged from thelocomotive'dierably form the pile by beginning at one end and build from this end over the segmental piling-floor. The coal is first discharged into the pit from cars on a siding B', and the bucket of the crane removes the coal from this pit and delivers it to any point desired on the piling-licor, or the crane may be so operated that the coal can be removed from the pit and discharged into the bin when it is desired to iill the bin immediately without transferring it to the piling-floor, in the case of an emergency, for instance. rlhe coal in the bin is kept, preferably, at a certain height by the operator removing coal from the piling-floor and discharging it into the bin, so that a locomotive coming on the track B can quickly coal by simply removing a certain amount of coal from the bin by gravity. At the same time the ashes can be discharged from the locomotive into the ash-pit and when the crane is not in use in storing coal or loading the bin it can be used to remove ashes from the pit and transfer them to a. pile or discharge them directly into cars on the siding' B. Thus by my improved arrangement I am enabled to make a comparatively cheap coaling-station for railway service and which can be economically operated.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a modification of the coal-pocket. The coal-pocket D (shown in Fig. 3) is especially applicable to a singletrack eoaling-station; but the pocket D2 (shown in Fig. 4) is intended to be used as a coalingstation having two or more tracks. D2 is the coal-pocket, having a hopper d and a frame D3 extending over the tracks B2. On the frame D3 is a track cl2, on which is a hopper-car cl3, which can receive coal from the hopper 0l' and transfer it to any of the chutes (Z4 above the tracks B2.

In Fig. 5 I have shown my invention used as a steamboat coaling-station. In place of the track B, I mount the apparatus on a wharf A2, so that a vessel N can be supplied with coal from the coal-pocket D. The crane may be used when moved into position to transfer material from the vessel to the wharf or to cars on the tracks, if desired.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of a piling-floor, an elevated segmental track, a truck carrying a boom-crane a bucketsuspended from the boom of said crane, a pit and an elevated coal-pocket so situated in respect to the segmental track, that the crane can remove material from the pit or deliver it to the pocket while at any point on the track, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a piling-floor, asegment'al track mounted above said floor, a crane arranged to travel on the track a bucket hung from said crane, a pit and an elevated coal- Vpocket at or near the point from which the are of the track is taken, so that the crane can remove material from the pit and transfer it to the iioor, or remove material from the iioor and discharge it into theV coal-pocket, a track so arranged in respect to the pit that a car on said track can discharge into the pit, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a coalingtrack,a siding-track, coal-pocket above the siding-track having a chute by which a locomotive on the coaling-track can be charged with coal from the pocket, apit under the siding-track and to one side of the bin, a piling-licor at one side of the track, a segmental track above the pilingfloor, a crane mounted on the segmental track and having a bucket suspended from the boom thereof, said crane being so arranged in respect to the pit and the bin that it can receive material from the pit and transfer it to the piling-licor or receive material from the piling-floor and transfer it to the bin, substantially as described.

4. The combination of acoaling-track, asiding-track, a coal-pocket above the siding-track, an ash-pit between the rails of the coalingtrack, a piling-licor at one side of the sidingtrack, a pit forming the centerl for the pilingioor and extending under the siding-track, a segmental track mounted above the pilingiioor, a crane on the segmental track, the ashpit of the coaling-track being in such a position in respect to the segmental track that the bucket carried by the crane can be shifted to either remove material from the coalpit and deliver it onto the piling-Hoor, or discharge material from the piling-licor into the bin, or remove material from the ash-pit into a car on the siding, substantially as described.

5. The combination of a coal-pocket adjacent to a track or wharfl edge from which coal can be delivered into a locomotive or boat, a pit near the track or wharf edge, a piling-floor back of the pit, a segmental track of which the pit is the center each end of the segmental track being near the coaling-track or wharfline, a crane on the segmental track having a boom, a bucket hung from the boom, snbstantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my n ame to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH A. MACLENNAN.

Witnesses:

VILL. A. BARR, Jos. H. KLEIN.

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